On 14.04 here. I SSHed into my machine, added the following line to /etc/sudoers:

myuser   ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

And then tried running:

sudo mkdir /etc/blah

...and I'm being asked for my password. Why?!?

I do not want to be asked for my password when doing this operation. Please note that when I run ls -ltr / I get:

drwxr-xr-x 94 root root  4096 Jul 30 13:28 etc

But I don't think this matters because I've set myself up as a "sudoer", right?

More importantly, what do I need to do so that I can run sudo mkdir /etc/blah as my current user (myuser) without being asked for the password?

Here's my entire /etc/sudoers file:

#

# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.

#

# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of

# directly modifying this file.

#

# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.

#

Defaults        env_reset

Defaults        mail_badpass

Defaults        secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"



# Host alias specification



# User alias specification



# Cmnd alias specification



# User privilege specification

root      ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

fizzbuzz  ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

chadmin   ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges

%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL



# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL



# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:



#includedir /etc/sudoers.d