login system, how to go from controller to view to model

[eluser]thurting[/eluser]
md5 encrypts any string into a 32 character hash. So, if you redisplay the password value after running it through md5 via the validator it will display this hash. The best thing to do is to not redisplay the password value when there is a submission error. It is standard practice to make the user reenter the password from scratch.