Time for action – including new dictionaries

The following steps will demonstrate how to include new directories:

1. Edit the users file located under the FreeRADIUS configuration directory and make sure the following entry for alice exists:

   "alice" Cleartext-Password := "passme"
       Mikrotik-Total-Limit = 10240

2. Restart FreeRADIUS in debug mode. The restart should be unsuccessful and the following error message will display:

   /etc/raddb/users[11]: Parse error (reply) for entry alice: Invalid octet string "10240" for attribute name "Mikrotik-Total-Limit"
   Errors reading /etc/raddb/users

3. The error does not explicitly says the AVP is not in any of the dictionaries but if you do a quick grep for this AVP in the /usr/share/freeradius directory, it will come back empty indicating we do have a problem:

   grep -lr 'Mikrotik-Total-Limit' /usr/share/freeradius/*

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