[Fab-user] help passing a hashed password

[Tim Burby]

Hi All, 
I am new to fabric but I'm really appreciating the power. I'm a middling sys 
admin with sudden responsibility for about 50 servers. the Environment is 
currently handled machine by machine for authentication. How can I pass a 
hashed password to either useradd or usermod?
I tried sudo("usermod -p 'wholebunchofhashstuff' jsmith") and sudo("usermod -p 
\'wholebunchofhashstuff\' jsmith" but both have failed. and would there  be a 
way to pass the hash in from a command option? I've combed the web as best as I 
can but pure sys admin examples are never as full as I'd like. 

Thanks

Tim