Builddbm

Usage

Builddbm converts the plaintext Radius users database into DBM files. Some versions of Radius daemon have used this to speed up the access to the users database.

However, with GNU Radius things go the other way around. The server reads entire plaintext database, converts it into internal form and stores into hash table which provides for fast access. Actually, using DBM version of the users database slows down the access unless the machine which runs Radius daemon is short of address space for the daemon to store the users database into.

Syntax

When used without arguments, builddbm utility attempts to convert file `raddb/users' into `raddb/users.db' or `raddb/users.pag', `raddb/users.dir' pair, depending on the version of DBM library used.

If used with one argument, the argument is taken as the name of the plaintext database file to operate upon.

Use the following command line options to modify the operation of buildbm:

-d dir

Specifies alternate directory for the Radius configuration files. This defaults to `/usr/local/etc/raddb'.

-h

Outputs short usage summary and exits with 0 exit code.

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