keyboard-interactive automatic password submission

issue-password.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# automatically give password to scripts that use ssh/scp and do not have public
# key authentification available.

PASSWORD = 'abc123'

import pexpect
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print('usage: ' + sys.argv[0] + ' <script command to run>')
    sys.exit(1)

command = ''
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    command += arg + ' '

output = pexpect.run(command, events={'(?i)password': PASSWORD + '\n'})
print(output)