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From the first hit on Google:

WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can’t access the files
directly. This is usually caused by PHP running as the apache user
(mod_php or CGI) rather than the user that owns your WordPress files.

This is rather normal in most shared hosting environments – the files are stored as the user, and Apache runs as user apache or httpd. This is actually a good security precaution so exploits and hacks cannot modify hosted files. You could circumvent this by setting all WP files to 777 security, but that means no security, so I would highly advise against that. Just use FTP, it’s the automatically advised workaround with good reason.

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