Podman-compose how to connect to socket?

I did:

podman down
podman system migrate
podman system disable
systemctl stop podman.socket
systemctl disable podman.socket

Then check that path again:

ls -al /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock': No such file or directory

Now I start podman again:

systemctl --user enable podman.socket
Created symlink '/var/home/asterix/.config/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/podman.socket' → '/usr/lib/systemd/user/podman.socket'.

~/services 
❯ systemctl --user start podman.socket

~/services 
❯ systemctl --user start podman

Then check the path again:

ls -al /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
srw-rw----. 1 asterix asterix 0 Feb  1 18:47 /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock

Looks good…

podman-compose up -d

But now I am back at the original issue… podman logs -f --tail 20 caddy-proxy

{"level":"info","ts":1738432293.5259368,"logger":"docker-proxy","msg":"Running caddy proxy server"}
{"level":"info","ts":1738432293.526501,"logger":"admin","msg":"admin endpoint started","address":"localhost:2019","enforce_origin":false,"origins":["//localhost:2019","//[::1]:2019","//127.0.0.1:2019"]}
{"level":"info","ts":1738432293.5265949,"msg":"autosaved config (load with --resume flag)","file":"/config/caddy/autosave.json"}
{"level":"info","ts":1738432293.5266,"logger":"docker-proxy","msg":"Running caddy proxy controller"}
{"level":"error","ts":1738432293.5267446,"logger":"docker-proxy","msg":"Docker ping failed","error":"permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Head \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/_ping\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied"}
Error: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Head "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/_ping": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

I am jumping between “cannot connect to socket” and “permission denied” each time I do the EXACT same actions…
I could do podman down, podman migrate podman reset, delete the config folder for my container, stop the podman.socket service and disable.
Then enable that service and start it again… run podman up and I would be back at “cannot connect” .
Then do it all again and get “permission denied”…

edit: I tried but still stuck with permission denied, also when I remove :Z