title: cakephp auth component: password hashing problem
body: <p>I am using the auth component straight out the box. When a user enters their password it hashes it using the salt in my core.php file. Is there a way to manually hash a variable using this same method? Because I want the user to have the ability to change their password so say they enter the new password and I store it in $newPassword, how would I hash this in the same way to then insert into the database?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Geoff</p>