From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:54:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: allow aliases to be added to groups
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7dcb30f4927277ecb43ee474b3de3bbd73916e0e;p=thirdparty%2Ffreeradius-server.git

allow aliases to be added to groups

but only by protocol libraries, not by user-editable dictionaries
---

diff --git a/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c b/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
index a4b7f4cb0a6..9a28eb5ecb3 100644
--- a/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
+++ b/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ static int dict_read_process_alias(dict_tokenize_ctx_t *dctx, char **argv, int a
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 *	Internally we can add aliases to STRUCTs.  But the poor user can't.
+	 *	Internally we can add aliases to STRUCTs and GROUPs.  But the poor user can't.
 	 *
 	 *	This limitation is mainly so that we can differentiate automatically added aliases (which
 	 *	point to unions), from ones added by users.  If we make dict_attr_acopy_aliases() a little
diff --git a/src/lib/util/dict_util.c b/src/lib/util/dict_util.c
index b2ec909ce7c..2a72d40acd2 100644
--- a/src/lib/util/dict_util.c
+++ b/src/lib/util/dict_util.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,7 @@ int dict_attr_alias_add(fr_dict_attr_t const *parent, char const *alias, fr_dict
 	case FR_TYPE_TLV:
 	case FR_TYPE_VENDOR:
 	case FR_TYPE_VSA:
+	case FR_TYPE_GROUP:
 		break;
 
 	default: