06-21-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
avinashpv
I first wanted to have a back-up plan of how I can do damage control, incase the .profile throws me out every time I login.
This was a wise approach ...
Quote:
I have tried editing the .profile to have only the exit command.
Now the server is not allowing me to login
but not that ...
There are many ways to fix it. For example by using a different account to log in or a protocol that doesn't use .profile like ftp or (probably) sftp.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
colormgr
COLORMGR(1) COLORMGR(1)
NAME
colormgr - Color Manager Testing Tool
SYNOPSIS
colormgr [ --verbose ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the colormgr command.
colormgr allows an administrator to view and change color profile to device mappings.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
--help Show summary of options.
COMMANDS
This program takes commands with a variable number of arguments.
create-device
Creates a color managed device
create-profile
Create a color profile
delete-device
Deletes a color managed device
delete-profile
Deletes a color profile
device-add-profile
Add a profile to a device that already exists
device-get-default-profile
Gets the default color profile for a device
device-get-profile-for-qualifier
Returns all the profiles that match a given qualifier
device-make-profile-default
Makes a profile default for a specific device
device-set-kind
Sets the device kind
device-set-model
Sets the device model
device-set-serial
Sets the device serial
device-set-vendor
Sets the device vendor
find-device
Find a device from the device ID
find-device-by-property
Find a device with a given property value
find-profile
Find a profile from the profile ID
find-profile-by-filename
Find a profile from the filename
get-devices
Gets all the color managed devices
get-devices-by-kind
Gets all the color managed devices of a specific kind
get-profiles
Gets all the available color profiles
profile-set-filename
Sets the profile filename
profile-set-qualifier
Sets the profile qualifier
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>.
20 December,2008 COLORMGR(1)