# On Mac When Update Don't Ask For Admin Credential If Installed In ~/Applications **URL:** \ **Category:** Desktop Requests\ **Created:** [May 31, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279 "2019-05-31T19:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arbor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/arbor/32/22364_2.png) [@arbor](https://community.brave.app/u/arbor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/1 "2019-05-31T19:44:46Z")
Brave is installed in my home folder ~/Applications. Update should be able to install without asking for admin login! Please don’t ask for admin login in this situation. I never want to provide admin login to any app asking for it for no valid reason…I don’t like Chrome for this reason because it secretly install other things I don’t like… Firefox is able to update just fine without ask for any admin login! ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/2 "2019-05-31T19:51:16Z")
@arbor, Does it ask you for the password on every _update_ or just after installing? ---
**Author:** ![arbor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/arbor/32/22364_2.png) [@arbor](https://community.brave.app/u/arbor)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/3 "2019-06-05T05:23:43Z")
I’ve been waiting for a new update to test this, but no update yet for so many days ☹ My version: Version 0.64.77 Chromium: 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit) It keep saying is update to date…wating… ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/4 "2019-06-05T19:44:13Z")
@arbor, Thank you for your patience – and for bumping this thread. If you’d rather skip the rate, you can try downloading our [Nightly builds](https://brave.com/download-nightly). These are updated…well, nightly, so you’d have the chance to update sooner than you would were you to wait for an update to Release channel. ---
**Author:** ![arbor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/arbor/32/22364_2.png) [@arbor](https://community.brave.app/u/arbor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/5 "2019-06-06T18:19:36Z")
The Nightly build updated itself and it did _not_ ask for admin credential! I realize what happen to cause Brave to ask for admin credential to update itself: when I first installed Brave, I did the install to the system Applications folder, and provided the Mac with admin credential. Then I moved Brave from system Applications to my home Applications. So I am pretty sure the Brave executable file was set to “owned by admin” even though I moved it. So Brave update needed to ask for admin credential to override… If I had simply install Brave into my home Applications in the first place, I would have not encounter this problem. So Brave update works fine…it’s was my problem… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/on-mac-when-update-dont-ask-for-admin-credential-if-installed-in-applications/63279/6 "2019-06-06T21:26:15Z")
Closed on June 6, 2019, 9:26pm UTC