I don't think beforeSave would work, because it gets hashed even before the method that calls Save( ).
I think I may have found a cheater (read: non-cake) way of doing it... I run the following test: if ($this->Auth->password('') == $this->data['User']['password']) { unset($this->data['User']['password']); } Basically, if the hash matches the hash of an empty string, the password was empty... clear it. done. thanks for all the input though guys, I appreciate it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---