diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index bbd287b4d5..1f76f2406c 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1569,6 +1569,7 @@ mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/wireshark/plugins/*/libvirt.so \
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libvirt-admin.so
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/virt-admin
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1/virt-admin.1*
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirt-admin.conf
 
 %if %{with_network}
 install -d -m 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index be3b3c84e8..7219f7c563 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ moddir = $(libdir)/libvirt/connection-driver
 mod_LTLIBRARIES =
 
 confdir = $(sysconfdir)/libvirt
-conf_DATA = libvirt.conf
+conf_DATA = libvirt.conf libvirt-admin.conf
 
 augeasdir = $(datadir)/augeas/lenses
 augeas_DATA =
diff --git a/src/libvirt.conf b/src/libvirt.conf
index a6e16ae153..da4dfbecb1 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.conf
+++ b/src/libvirt.conf
@@ -16,4 +16,3 @@
 # (@uri_default also prevents probing of the hypervisor driver).
 #
 #uri_default = "qemu:///system"
-#uri_default_admin = "libvirtd:///system"