HP-UX AAA Server A.08.02 Administrator's Guide

IMPORTANT: Configuration files have a maximum input line length of 255 characters. No
checking is done to insure that a configuration statement has not exceeded this limit. All configuration
files must end with a new line.
You can track different versions of the dictionary file by adding the following line to the file:
%DICTID Version-String
Version-String is the version information. This string will appear in radcheck output.
Attribute Entries
Below is the syntax of Dictionary Attribute entries:
ATTRIBUTE attribute-name integer-encoding type pruning
NOTE: Vendor-specific attribute identifier strings are defined in the vendors file and can be
used in place of the default string ATTRIBUTE. For more information, see “Syntax of a vendors
File” (page 395).
attribute-name Replaced with the unique name of an attribute.
integer-encoding Replaced with the actual attribute number code used in the A-V pair
data format.
type Replaced with one of the following data types for the attribute:
• octet: 8-bit unsigned integer value
• short: 16-bit unsigned integer value
• integer: 32 bit value in big endian order (high byte first)
• date: 32 bit value in big endian order (seconds since 00:00:00
GMT, Jan. 1, 1970)
• octets: 0-253 undistinguished octets
• a binary: 0-253 Ascend binary filter octets
• string: 0-253 octets
• vendor: 0-253 octets with octets 0-3 representing the IANA number
• ipaddr: 4 octets in network byte order
• ipv6addr: 16 octets in network byte order (used for IPv6 attributes)
• ipv6prefix: 4-20 octets (used for IPv6 attributes)
• ifid: 8 undistinguished octets (used for IPv6 attributes)
• tag-int: single octet followed by three octets of integer value (used
for tunneling attribute)
• tag-string: single octet followed by 0-252 octets (used for tunneling
attribute)
pruning May be replaced with an optional expression that controls three server
features
• whether the attribute is ever sent to the NAS
• whether or not the attribute may be logged
• encapsulation, if used, for vendor-specific attributes
Pruning Expressions
Pruning is a feature that allows the server to remove A-V pairs from an Access-Accept, Access-Reject,
or Access-Challenge message before sending the message to a client that has been configured for
The dictionary File 391