I'm working on adding a chapter about printing to the Fedora User Guide. I've got a bit of a hangup at the moment because I can't figure out how to elevate privileges in systemsettings. A few of the modules (Login Manager, for example), will prompt for a root password, but the printing module does not. I can't find any option to run it with elevated privileges, apart from maybe launching from the command line with sudo, but that's a messy solution for what is supposed to be a guide for inexperienced users.

I feel like there something obvious that I'm just missing.

(KDE workspace 4.4.5 on Fedora 12)

The following command should be sufficient to run the Printer Manager as root.

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kdesu kcmshell4 system-config-printer-kde

Ideally the control module would request these privileges. Please file a bug report about that at bugs.kde.org.

Bug submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248308

The kdesu workaround is successful, thanks!