I'm not 100% sure, but I think it will work if you just single quote the password in global.conf. Since $database_password is essentially eval'd into existence with the rest of the data structures in global.conf, if you have something like
$database_password = "foo$bar";
it's probably trying to interpolate that $bar and coming up with
$dabase_password = "foo";
Jason
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