chpasswd in sudoers

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I've searched everywhere I can think of, and am not able to get this to work. I need to add the user "www-data" to the sudoers file to run two commands with no password, namely "/usr/sbin/useradd" and "usr/sbin/chpasswd". I need this for a script that will automatically create a user and set their password. the line I'm using in the sudoers file is below. I've tested removing the useradd references, and the script fails. However, I can't get the chpasswd command to work without the password.

sudoers line

www-data hostname=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/chpasswd

test.sh

#!/bin/sh
sudo useradd -m $1
echo 1 - user added
sudo echo "$1:$2" | chpasswd
echo 2 - pass changed

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Just to wrap this up, I found a workaround. Instead of using the chpasswd command, I tweaked it to use mkpasswd in the useradd statement, as below. Cheers!

sudo useradd -p $(mkpasswd -s -m sha-512 $password) -m $username