Can't include a Dictionary referenced in radiusd.conf

[Alan DeKok]

On Jul 27, 2023, at 8:56 AM, Scott Reeve via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> Created a new Ubuntu server VM (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS) and did 'apt get' for freeradius.
> 
> All was fine until I tried to pull in a standard dictionary file like I've done many times in the past.
...
> It never complained about lack of braces before, but now I get this:
> including configuration file /etc/freeradius/3.0/sites-enabled/inner-tunnelincluding configuration file /etc/freeradius/3.0/sites-enabled/defaultincluding configuration file /root/mellanoxDictionary/root/mellanoxDictionary[11]: Expecting section start brace '{' after "VENDOR Mellanox"Errors reading or parsing /etc/freeradius/3.0/radiusd.conf

  Put the $INCLUDE into raddb/dictionary.  The dictionary files have never gone into radiusd.conf.

> This has worked fine for years for me, but either the latest Ubuntu and/or the latest FreeRadius somehow do things a bit differently, it seems.

  It's always been this way.  It hasn't changed.

  Alan DeKok.