Siebel srvrmgr Will Not Connect - ORA-01017: invalid username/password - Caused by Dollar Symbol in Password (Doc ID 1931241.1)

Symptoms

Unable to connect srvrmgr on a new Siebel enterprise.

The log is showing :

GenericLog GenericError 1 00000006541f27dc:0 2014-09-22 12:00:20 (secmgr.cpp (2824) err=4597527 sys=0) SBL-SEC-10007: The username or password you have entered is not correct. Enter your username and password again.
GenericLog GenericError 1 00000006541f27dc:0 2014-09-22 12:00:20 (client.cpp (392) err=4597527 sys=0) SBL-SEC-10007: The username or password you have entered is not correct. Enter your username and password again.
SisnTcpIp SisnSockError 1 00000006541f27dc:0 2014-09-22 12:00:20 1447562096: [TCPIP-server] recv() failed for sd=-1 (err=9 | Bad file descriptor)
SisnTcpIp SisnSockError 1 00000006541f27dc:0 2014-09-22 12:00:20 1447562096: [TCPIP-server] send() failed for sd=-1 (err=9 | Bad file descriptor)

This was further narrowed to be specific to the odbcsql connection.  SQLPlus was working correctly :

$ odbcsql /s SIEBEL_DSN /u sadmin /p xxxxxxx
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Logging into "SIEBEL_DSN" as "sadmin" ...
ODBC error 46 in SQLConnect:
[DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][20101]ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
(native error 1017).
Unable to login using specified ODBC parameters.


Using same username and password to the same DB, using SQLPlus - work successfully :


$ sqlplus sadmin@siebeldb

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Mon Sep 22 13:44:52 2014

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Enter password:

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

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Cause

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