How FreeRADIUS includes dictionary files

FreeRADIUS installs many pre-defined dictionary files by default. These dictionary files are stored in the /usr/share/freeradius directory (if you installed from source code using the configure; make; make install pattern they will be stored in /usr/local/share/freeradius). Dictionary files are named according to a convention. The names are in the form dictionary.<identifier>. The identifier can be classified into three categories, as follows:

• Vendor/technology name: for example dictionary.mikrotik or dictionary.wimax
• RFC number: for example dictionary.rfc2865
• FreeRADIUS's internal dictionaries: for example dictionary.freeradius.internal

If a dictionary file is installed it does NOT automatically imply that this dictionary file will be used by FreeRADIUS. FreeRADIUS has to be configured to include that specific dictionary file. We do this in the following way:

1. In the FreeRADIUS configuration directory is a file called dictionary. The content...