Other than the quoting problem on your password you might look at the last part. When using the list form of the system command there is a big difference between calling the external program using system "foo", "1 1 1" and system "foo", "1","1","1" let me give you and example:

if (@ARGV) {
    print "called with ";
    foreach (@ARGV) {
        print "'$_' ";
    }
    print "\n";
}
else {
    system ('perl', $0, "foo", "bar", "baz");
    system ('perl', $0, "foo bar baz");
    #single parameter
    system ("perl $0 foo bar baz");
    system ("perl $0 'foo bar baz'");
}
__OUTPUT___
$ perl temp.pl
called with 'foo' 'bar' 'baz'
called with 'foo bar baz'
called with 'foo' 'bar' 'baz'
called with 'foo bar baz'
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As you can see the first form calls the external program with three separate parameters 'foo', 'bar', 'baz'. The second form calls the program with one parameter "foo bar baz" These are very different and the external program may act completely different depending on what it expects.

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