Enable Login as Root in ProFTPD

WARNING, login as root is always bad practise. This tutorial intended for special case and running from within development environment.

Open proftpd.conf

vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Insert this value at the end of file

<Global>
RootLogin on
UseFtpUsers off
</Global>

Finally, restart ProFTPD service

service proftpd restart