Passwordless access to System libvirt on Fedora 28

I can connect to the system libvirtd on my system without password. I set this up some time ago, and forgot how, so figured I would document it.

TO check that I can connect via virsh to the libvirst unix domain socket without a password.

$ virsh -c qemu:///system list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
- cfme-tng shut off
- generic shut off
- pagure_pagure shut off

How?  File permissions.  The socket file can be found using a command like:

$ strace virsh -c qemu:///system list --all 2>&1 | grep connect
connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
connect(6, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/lib/sss/pipes/nss"}, 110) = 0
connect(7, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock"}, 110) = 0

It is the last line that we care about.

[ayoung@ayoung541 rippowam]$ ls -la /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
srwxrwx---. 1 root libvirtd 0 May 31 09:30 /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

My user account is a member of the libvirtd group.

[ayoung@ayoung541 rippowam]$ groups
ayoung wheel kvm qemu dockerroot libvirt devel openstack gss-eng-collab idm-dev-lab libvirtd docker

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