As far as I understand it is not related to specific permissions – Auto Update overall requires that files owner matches user Apache runs under. If that is not the case it falls back to other filesystem methods (FTP, SSH) and so prompts for password.
You can define credentials in constants in wp-config.php so you don’t get prompted for them.
See WordPress Upgrade Constants in Codex.
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