Programatically create user in Drupal 7

user_create.info

name = "Programatic user create"
description = "A sample module to create user programaticaly."
core = 7.x

user_create.module

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Programatically create user
 */

/**
 * Implements hook_menu()
 */
function user_create_menu() {
  $items['user_create'] = array(
    'access callback' => TRUE,
    'page callback' => 'user_create_new',
    'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
  );
  return $items;
}

/**
 * Page callback to create new user
 */
function user_create_new() {
  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/password.inc';
  $account = new stdClass;
  $account->is_new = TRUE;
  $account->name = 'bar';
  $account->pass = user_hash_password('foo');
  $account->mail = 'foo@example.com';
  $account->init = 'foo@example.com';
  $account->status = TRUE;
  $account->roles = array(DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID => TRUE);
  $account->timezone = variable_get('date_default_timezone', '');
  user_save($account);
  return array(
    '#markup' => 'User Created'
  );
}