I don't think a hashed password is reversible.
if you really need the to show cleartext password you could add another field
into the db table like password_cleartext and keep it there ....

Andras Kende
http://www.kende.com


On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:59 PM, eldorado2768 wrote:

> If I setup a user and create a password, the password is hashed using
> cakephp's default SHA1 hash algorithm and saved in the user table
> without any problem. However, when I want to view or edit the record,
> the entire 36 char password is being displayed in the password field.
> Is there any way to reverse hash it back to the decrypted version so
> the user sees the original password before it was hashed?
> 
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