How to pass the password to su/sudo/ssh without overriding the TTY?

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For sudo there is a -S option for accepting the password from standard input. Here is the man entry:

    -S          The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from
                the standard input instead of the terminal device.

This will allow you to run a command like:

echo myPassword | sudo -S ls /tmp

As for ssh, I have made many attempts to automate/script it’s usage with no success. There doesn’t seem to be any build-in way to pass the password into the command without prompting. As others have mentioned, the “expect” utility seems like it is aimed at addressing this dilemma but ultimately, setting up the correct private-key authorization is the correct way to go when attempting to automate this.

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