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Rescue> I believe the previous submission might have been in Rescue> error. I now believe that either the bug is that you Rescue> can't use any non-alphanumeric characters in your root Rescue> password, or that the system was designed this way. In Rescue> witch it needs to be changed. non-alphanumeric Rescue> characters increase the security factor.

MySQL itself doesn't have any problems with handling '$' in the password. I think the problem you got has to do with that your shell parses the '$' character.

Here is what I tried that worked without any problems for me:

mysqladmin -utest --password='$qq' mysqladmin -utest --password='$qq' ver

Regards, Monty