From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:19:23 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: clearer error messages
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a161add0008764e3f8dd748fee527ac256b60b2d;p=thirdparty%2Ffreeradius-server.git

clearer error messages
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diff --git a/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c b/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
index 3d9a4d0478b..ec199a948a3 100644
--- a/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
+++ b/src/lib/util/dict_tokenize.c
@@ -3278,7 +3278,15 @@ static int _dict_from_file(dict_tokenize_ctx_t *dctx,
 		if (argc == 0) continue;
 
 		if (argc == 1) {
-			fr_strerror_const("Invalid syntax - expected keyword followed by arguments");
+			/*
+			 *	Be nice.
+			 */
+			if ((strcmp(argv[0], "BEGIN") == 0) ||
+			    (fr_dict_keyword(&parser, keywords, NUM_ELEMENTS(keywords), argv_p[0], NULL))) {
+				fr_strerror_printf("Keyword %s is missing all of its arguments", argv[0]);
+			} else {
+				fr_strerror_printf("Invalid syntax - unknown keyword %s", argv[0]);
+			}
 
 		error:
 			fr_strerror_printf_push("Failed parsing dictionary at %s[%d]", fr_cwd_strip(fn), line);