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usermod -p not working in HP Unix

Hi;

Im working on HP -UX B.11.11 U 9000/800 , I come from a Linux background and i m not so good at HP UX.Here is the issue

I need to reset the password of some 100 users at one go ,on linux I used to do it.I wrote a small code in linux and it worked a charm

here is the code ,where in I used to give a colon seperated file as an input.

Code:

cat $1|while read UID
do
NAME=`echo $UID|awk -F ":" '{print $1}'`
PASS=`echo $UID|awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
#perl -e 'print crypt("$PASS", "salt"),"\n"'>/syed/var
pass=$(perl -e 'print crypt($ARGV[0], "imju%JHYlmnb")' $PASS)
usermod -p $pass $NAME
done

Now on HP UX it doesnt let me do it as there is not -p switch in HP UX. Can some one please help me with it

My input file format is like

Code:

username:password

Thanks in Advance

maverick_here

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crypt(3C)																 crypt(3C)

NAME

       crypt  - generate hashing encryption

SYNOPSIS

   Obsolescent Interfaces
DESCRIPTION

   crypt():
       is  the	password encryption function.  It is based on a one way hashing encryption algorithm with variations intended (among other things)
       to frustrate use of hardware implementations of a key search.

       key is a user's typed password.	salt is a two-character string chosen from the set this string is used to perturb the hashing algorithm in
       one of 4096 different ways, after which the password is used as the key to encrypt repeatedly a constant string.  The returned value points
       to the encrypted password.  The first two characters are the salt itself.

   Obsolescent Interfaces
       generate hashing encryption.

WARNINGS

       The return value for points to data whose content is overwritten by each call.

       and are obsolescent interfaces  supported only for compatibility with existing DCE applications. New multithreaded applications should use

SEE ALSO

       crypt(1), login(1), passwd(1), getpass(3C), passwd(4), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	 crypt(3C)