[Fab-user] How to handle remote shell prompt for input?

[Jonathan Livni]

I need Fabric to pass an arbitrary string to the remote shell due to a user-prompt.

Specifically I need to give the password to mysqldump command and my web hosting site does not allow the --password=[password] flag

Only answer I could find on the web is "use pexpect", which isn't a good answer...

Thanks

  Jonathan