>My FTP client issues the chmod command,
>but the server returns "bad command".
>Should this work, or do I misunderstand
>what file / deirectory attributes is referring to?

There is no such command in the FTP standard (RFC-959).

However, most sites implement this using the "SITE" command, as in "SITE CHMOD 0755 filename" -- which is exactly how my kftpd does it.

Your client is broken, but if you can send me the exact string that it passes to kftpd, then I'll see about a server-side fix. To see the strings, add this to your config.ini, and then monitor the serial port while using ftp:

[hijack]
kftpd_verbose=1

Cheers
-ml