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try this


sed "s:\($ENTRY\)=\(.*\):\1=$NEW:"

Like this?
name="Michael"
pass="newpassword"
sed '/^\('"$name"': \).*/s//\1'"$pass"'/' users.passwords > temp
mv temp users.passwords

The -c option on your tar command is causing a new file to be created with each invocation. When there are more files in your input file than can be placed on the command line xargs will invoke tar...

Try

nohup abc.sh &

you need to take the logs for the cron job . Most likely its a env variable issue as cron does not set your env variables by default. You need to check the cronrun log file to find the details ....