Title: Password overwritten
Last modified: September 22, 2020

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# Password overwritten

 *  Resolved [aghahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aghahn/)
 * (@aghahn)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-overwritten/)
 * I am importing to update roles for existing users.
    I include the column “user_pass”
   empty because I don’t want passwords to be updated. However, the importing updates
   de passwords anyway.

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 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-overwritten/#post-13439815)
 * You have to use “Password” column empty to avoid override it. user_pass is only
   used if you are importing password that are already hashed.
 * This is explained in documentation tab.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-overwritten/#post-13439815)
 * Status: resolved