5.2 Dictionary of Attributes -- `raddb/dictionary'

The dictionary file `raddb/dictionary' defines the symbolic names for radius attributes and their values (see section 3.1 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.

5.2.1 Comments		Introducing a comment line.
5.2.2 $INCLUDE Statement		Include a file.
5.2.3 VENDOR Statement		Define a vendor-id.
5.2.4 ATTRIBUTE statement		Define an attribute translation.
5.2.5 Blocks of Vendor-Specific Attributes		Blocks of vendor-specific attributes
5.2.6 ALIAS statement		Define alternative name for an attribute.
5.2.7 PROPERTY statement		Define attribute properties.
5.2.8 VALUE Statement		Define a value translation.