A simple shell to hash your passwords

If you are moving data into a CakePHP environment and the passwords in the existing DB aren’t hashed, you can use the simple shell provided below to hash them according to the cake’s standard.
In case the passwords are already hashed using a different method, this is not going to be of any use. Instead use Security::setHash() to set the method according to your needs.

The code should be simple to understand and usage example is provided in the comments.
(Any questions or feedback, just post a comment…)

Save the following into: app/vendors/shells/password_hash.php

<?php
/**
 * Importing the security component,
 * which is used to hash the passwords
 */

App::import('Core', 'Security');

/**
 * Hashes passwords in the given table
 * Usage: &quot;cake password_hash&quot; (to run against the default users table and password field)
 * Or: &quot;cake password_hash -table some_table -field another_field&quot;
 *
 * Strict mode can be turned off, this way
 * any password even potentially a hashed one already will be re-hashed
 * see below for more info on how that works. From command line:
 * &quot;cake password_hash -strict false&quot;
 * Or: &quot;cake password_hash -strict 0&quot;
 *
 */

class PasswordHashShell extends Shell {

/**
 * True/False to keep the shell from
 * showing any output
 *
 * @var boolean
 */

  private $silent = FALSE;

/**
 * Holds the instance of the current model,
 * where the hashing needs to happen
 * (Defaults to User model)
 *
 * @var object
 */

  private $model = 'User';

/**
 * Field to hash
 * (Defaults to password)
 *
 * @var string
 */

  private $field = 'password';

/**
 * If the strict (mode) is set to TRUE
 * the shell will ignore any 40 char passwords
 * (40 chars is the default length of cake's hashed password)
 *
 * From the shell we can specify the strict mode as:
 * cake password_hash -strict false/0
 *
 * @var boolean
 */

  private $strict = TRUE;

/**
 * Generic initialization function
 *
 * (Always a good idea to call the parent method)
 *
 */

  public function initialize() {
    parent::initialize();
  }

/**
 * Starting up the shell
 * Initializing shell properties based on the passed in params,
 * or falling back to defaults
 */

  public function startup() {
    if (isset($this->params['silent']) && $this->params['silent']) {
      $this->silent = TRUE;
    }

    if (isset($this->params['table']) && $this->params['table']) {
      $modelName = Inflector::classify($this->params['table']);
      $this->model = ClassRegistry::init($modelName);
    } else {
      $this->model = ClassRegistry::init($this->model);
    }

    if (isset($this->params['field']) && $this->params['field']) {
      $this->field = $this->params['field'];
    }

    if (isset($this->params['all']) && $this->params['all']) {
        $this->strict = FALSE;
    }
  }

/**
 * Main method is launched autmoatically
 * Works as a dispatcher.
 */

  public function main() {
    $this->processField();
  }

/**
 * Takes care of finding, hashing and saving the field
 * (Uses standard CakePHP hashing method)
 * If strict mode is enabled all 40 char passwords,
 * which is default hashed length are ignored.
 */

  private function processField() {
    $conditions = 1;
    if($this->strict) {
      $conditions = array(
          'LENGTH(`' . $this->field . '`) <>' => 40
      );
    }
   
    $fieldsToHash = $this->model->find('all', array(
        'recursive' => -1,
        'fields' => array($this->model->primaryKey, $this->field),
        'conditions' => $conditions
    ));

    foreach($fieldsToHash as $field) {
      $fieldValue = $field[$this->model->alias][$this->field];
      $recordId = $field[$this->model->alias][$this->model->primaryKey];

      $fieldValue = Security::hash($fieldValue, NULL, TRUE);
   
      $this->out('Changing password for: ' . $recordId);
      $this->out('Changed to: ' . $fieldValue);
           
      $this->model->create();
      $this->model->id = $recordId;
      $data = array(
        $this->model->alias => array(
            $this->field => $fieldValue
        )
      );
      $this->model->save($data, array(
          'validate' => FALSE,
          'callbacks' => FALSE
      ));
    }  
  }

/**
 * Shell output
 *
 * @param string $string
 * @param boolean $newline
 * @return boolean
 */

  public function out($string, $newline = true) {
    if(!$this->silent) {
      parent::out($string, $newline = true);
    }
    return FALSE;
  }

/**
 * Displays help contents
 *
 * @access public
 */

  public function help() {
    $this->_stop();
  }
}
?>

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