v4 - missing radmin?

James Wood james.wood at purplewifi.com
Fri Apr 3 15:22:43 UTC 2026


Next question on this:

When using the v3 dictionary alias includes, radmin won't load:

# radmin
radmin: Unknown protocol 'RADIUS'
Failed parsing dictionary at /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary[160]
_EXIT(64) CALLED src/listen/control/radmin.c[990]

BEGIN-PROTOCOL RADIUS
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.adtran
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.aerohive
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.airespace
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.arista
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.aruba
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.chillispot
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.cisco
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.cisco-asa
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.meraki
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.extreme
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.fortinet
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.freeradius
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.h3c
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.hp
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.huawei
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.lancom
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.mikrotik
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.juniper
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.nomadix
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.pfsense
$INCLUDE ${dictdir}/radius/v3/dictionary.ruckus
END-PROTOCOL RADIUS

Thanks,

James

On Fri, 3 Apr 2026 at 13:35, Alan DeKok <alan.dekok at inkbridge.io> wrote:

> On Apr 3, 2026, at 7:48 AM, James Wood via Freeradius-Users <
> freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> >
> > When compiling v4 from the latest source, radmin doesn't seem to be
> > included/built. Is this expected?
>
>   It's there.
>
> > ~/freeradius-server# grep -r "radmin" src/bin/all.mk 2>/dev/null
> > ~/freeradius-server# grep -r "radmin" src/bin/radmin.mk 2>/dev/null
> > ~/freeradius-server# cat src/bin/radmin.mk
> > cat: src/bin/radmin.mk: No such file or directory
> >
> > Do I need to do something specific?
>
>   Look in sbin.
>
>   Or, in the source:
>
> $ find . -name "radmin.mk" -print
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>

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