adding the "$" sign in password

hello,

i just noticed a strange thing.

my password has a “$” sign in it.

when i try to use the SSH and run the Bandwidth Test I am not allowed to use the $ sign when typing the password.

how can it be used?

error given is “expected end of command”

Try ‘escaping’ it by putting a '' in front of it, so if your password was:

dollar$

try

dollar$

or try encapsulating it inside quotes

“dollar$”

will try escaping it…

quotes did not work

no luck with the escaping either :frowning:

how can this be overcome?

Did you try escaping and quotes together?

I have a config build script that creates a ‘backup’ admin account with a dollar in the password. This works fine:

/user add name=abc group=full password="dollar\$"

Maybe it’s a specific issue with the bw test command.