diff --git a/src/tito/cli.py b/src/tito/cli.py
index 762f49b..3d3a520 100644
--- a/src/tito/cli.py
+++ b/src/tito/cli.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class ConfigLoader(object):
         # building, we may also load that and potentially override some global
         # settings.
         config = RawConfigParser()
-        config.read(filename)
+        config.read(self.tito_props_path)
 
         self._check_legacy_globalconfig(config)
         return config