Dictionary of Attributes -- `raddb/dictionary'

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

There are following kinds of statements:

• Comment: Introducing a comment line.
• $INCLUDE: Include a file.
• VENDOR: Define a vendor-id.
• ATTRIBUTE: Define an attribute translation.
• VALUE: Define a value translation.

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