Edit profile page - password required

[pascut]

On the my profile page or admin edit user pages, if I want to edit a user setting, the password and confirm assword fields are mandatory. When I press the save button and these fields are empty, the following errors appear:

The Password field does not match the pass_confirm field.
Password must be at least 8 characters long.

Is there a config that won't change the password each time I edit my profile or a user? This is totally wrong user experience. I find myself in the position of editing the bonfire core user pages. There must be a simple condition, if user pass and confirm pass are empty, but the user exists in the database, than the password fields won't be required on save.

[OAVHomeAdmin]

I believe I've read something that states removing pass_confirm from the following lines in the Users_model.php will correct this, which sucks because you can't confirm that the user is placing the correct password:

array( 'field' => 'password', 'label' => 'lang:bf_password', 'rules' => 'max_length[120]|valid_password|matches[pass_confirm]', ),

[huuptag]

[ 'field' => 'password', 'label' => 'lang:bf_password', 'rules' => 'trim|max_length[120]|valid_password|matches[pass_confirm]', ], [ 'field' => 'pass_confirm', 'label' => 'lang:bf_password_confirm', 'rules' => 'trim', ]
You can try to use trim validation rule.