Version: (using KDE 4.2.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Mandriva RPMs Non of the Administrative configuration utilities included with systemsettings provide a means for switching to root authority. Under KDE3, the utilities included with Kcontrole such as the KDM configuration utility provided a button which could be pressed to get a dialogue to enter the root password so the utility could be executed with root authority (e.g.: the user was able to edit the KDM configuration as root). I think this behaviour should be restored in KDE4
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 151669 ***