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4.2 Dictionary of Attributes — raddb/dictionary

The dictionary file raddb/dictionary defines the symbolic names for radius attributes and their values (see Attributes). The file consists of a series of statements, each statement occupies one line.

In the detailed discussion below we use the following meta-syntactic characters:

number
Denotes a decimal, octal or hexagesimal number. Usual C conventions are honored, i.e. if number starts with ‘0x’ or ‘0X’ it is read as a hex number, if it starts with ‘0’ it is read as an octal number, otherwise it is read as a decimal one.
type
Denotes an attribute type. These are valid attribute types:
string
A string type.
integer
An integer type.
ipaddr
ip address in a dotted-quad form.
date
A date in the format: "MON DD CCYY", where MON is the usual three-character abbreviation, DD is day of month (1-31), CCYY is the year, including the century.