When running a playbook on a remote target host you receive a Python error similar to "[Errno 13] Permission denied: `/home/nick/.ansible/tmp'. What would be the most likely cause of this problem?
A) The user's home or `.ansible' directory on the Ansible system is not writeable by the user running the play.
B) The specified user does not exist on the remote system.
C) The user running `ansible-playbook' must run it from their own home directory.
D) The user's home or `.ansible' directory on the Ansible remote host is not writeable by the user running the play

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The error indicates a permission issue on the remote host where the Ansible playbook is trying to write to the `.ansible/tmp` directory in the user's home directory. This suggests that the directory is not writable by the user running the play on the remote host.

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