( Error in the cron job

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I get this error sent to my email after my cron job runs

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `mysqldump --opt -Q -u USERNAME --password=password(word)secondpart dbname | gzip > /root/backupfolder/saturday.gz'

I know its because of the ( )
But it would be too much work to change my DB password right now. Because i have multiple forums, blogs etc. using this db and password also.

Isnt there any other quick solution to this?

[alemcherry]

Create another user, with new password and give it all rights on all databases. Then use that user / pass in your cron while the php keep on using the existing user / pass.