New module 'Secure Password Hashes' with core patch applied

modules/phpass/password-hash.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/php
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Drupal hash script - to generate a hash from a plaintext password
+ *
+ * Check for your PHP interpreter - on Windows you'll probably have to
+ * replace line 1 with
+ *   #!c:/program files/php/php.exe
+ *
+ * @param password1 [password2 [password3 ...]]
+ *  Plain-text passwords in quotes (or with spaces backslash escaped).
+ */
+
+if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, "5.2.0", "<")) {
+  $version  = PHP_VERSION;
+  echo <<<EOF
+
+ERROR: This script requires at least PHP version 5.2.0. You invoked it with
+       PHP version {$version}.
+\n
+EOF;
+  exit;
+}
+
+$script = basename(array_shift($_SERVER['argv']));
+
+if (in_array('--help', $_SERVER['argv']) || empty($_SERVER['argv'])) {
+  echo <<<EOF
+
+Generate Drupal 7 password hashes from the shell.
+
+Usage:        {$script} "<plan-text password>"
+Example:      {$script} "mynewpassword"
+
+All arguments are long options.
+
+  --help      Print this page.
+
+  "<password1>" ["<password2>" ["<password3>" ...]]
+
+              One or more plan-text passwords enclosed by double quotes. The
+              output hash may be manually entered into the {users}.pass field to
+              change a password via SQL to a known value.
+
+EOF;
+  exit;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fake variable_get() since we are not bootstrapping Drupal.
+ */
+function variable_get($name, $default = NULL) {
+  return $default;
+}
+
+require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/password.inc';
+
+foreach ($_SERVER['argv'] as $password) {
+  print("\npassword: $password \t\thash: ". user_hash_password($password) ."\n");
+}
+print("\n");
+