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How to add user in centos without manual password prompt

I am trying to automate setting up a user on centos as part of my script. Here is what i am doing:-

/usr/sbin/useradd my-user
/usr/bin/passwd my-user

You will be be prompted to enter password for the my-user user

Now is there a way to skip the second command so that there is no manual prompt, so that i can have something in the script to auto create my-user on centos without needing to manually enter the password

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  1. 0

    You can change password programmatically, using:

    echo -e "xyznxyzn" | /usr/bin/passwd my-user
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  2. 0

    You can use chpasswd command with echo. Here is a simple example

    /bin/echo my-user:password | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
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