# Update Userinformation

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/update-userinformation/27299>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [August 4, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/update-userinformation/27299 "2015-08-04T15:06:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bendeichp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@bendeichp](https://forums.suse.com/u/bendeichp)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/update-userinformation/27299/1 "2015-08-04T15:06:01Z")

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Hi Forum,

I’m struggling where to start… so I just start here 🙂

We are using Groupwise 2014 with eDir as User Backend.  
Unfortunately an big part of the user information (like department or  
phone number) is incomplete, outdated or something else.  
To correct this, I received an excel file with the most actual data and  
I was told to “import” it.

Sooo… where would you start?

My first thought was a perl script that uses LDAP to modify the users.  
But is this possible?

Thanks in advance,  
Pascal

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/update-userinformation/27299/2 "2015-08-04T15:54:53Z")

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Start in the Novell forums (these) but under the Support section, and then  
under the GroupWise product.

Also, when you post there, include what “incomplete, outdated or something  
else” means in quantitative terms. Sure, you can update LDAP, but maybe  
that will not help fix what is believed to be wrong (for example, if you  
have attributes within the address book that look wrong).

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Good luck.

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