When installing Firefox from a .pkg (not a .dmg), the installer places Firefox in /Applications with owner:group permissions as `root:wheel`. As a result of the 'wheel' group ownership, when the install of Firefox is updated, the update requires the user to authenticate with their password (or any admin account password). This allows Firefox's privileged updater to run which updates files and leaves the permissions as `root:admin` so that future updates by admin users can proceed without a password prompt. It would be better if the user the .pkg was configured to install Firefox with permissions root:admin so that Firefox could be updated without a password prompt. According to the `pkgbuild(1)` man page, this can be accomplished with the ` --ownership` option. Example Firefox pkg: [Firefox_110_b5.pkg](https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/110.0b5/mac/en-US/Firefox%20110.0b5.pkg)
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When installing Firefox from a .pkg (not a .dmg), the installer places Firefox in /Applications with owner:group permissions as `root:wheel`. As a result of the 'wheel' group ownership, when the install of Firefox is updated, the update requires the user to authenticate with their password (or any admin account password). This allows Firefox's privileged updater to run which updates files and leaves the permissions as `root:admin` so that future updates by admin users can proceed without a password prompt. It would be better if .pkg installs were configured to install Firefox with admin group ownership (i.e., `root:admin`) so that Firefox could be updated without a password prompt. According to the `pkgbuild(1)` man page, this can be accomplished with the ` --ownership` option. Example Firefox pkg: [Firefox_110_b5.pkg](https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/110.0b5/mac/en-US/Firefox%20110.0b5.pkg)