DadTool.pl obfuscation doesn't work with passwords containing a "$" sign !?

Hi,
we are using the OHS and mod_plsql which is bundled with the Oracle 9i Companion CD. When we try to obfuscate a password containing a $-sign (p.e. test1$test2) with dadTool.pl, the dads.conf is updated with an encrypted password and the dadTool.pl tells us that everything is ok and that it has encrypted one new password ...
As long as we started the OHS with the plain text password, everything works fine. But when we start it with the obfuscated password and request our URL (p.e. http://myserver/pls/test), we get an error message that the username/passwort is incorrect.
We tried everything and it looks like a bug in the dadTool.pl Perl script?!
Does anyone know this behavior? And are there any workarounds?
Best Regards,
Matthias

Sounds like your workaround is going to have to be removing the "$" from your password. Perl, like PHP and other popular languages, uses the "$" character to denote when a variable starts. Oracle must not be doing anything to cleanse the inputs to their perl scripts, assuming that their users are expert Perl scripters who already have a deep understanding of how Oracle relies on Perl scripts for helper utilities.
Don't get me started on what Oracle frequently assumes, or the quality of their scripting. Suffice to say that I see dark times eventually in Oracle's future as their competition catches up in features (and has already left them far behind in usability), and I'm not going to buy Oracle stock.
The point:
Oracle's perlscript sees "test1$test2" and assumes this means "test1" and append the contents of $test2, which resolves to "test1" as $test2 is undefined (read: empty).
Don't use "$". Or special characters (many of these have special meaning in Perl, the "write-once-read-never" language).

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