Does
  (remove-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
fail to do what you want?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey all,
>
> I have a set of expect scripts that interact with various services to
> launch a custom application on multiple servers, however when I do the
> launch, comint-watch-for-password-prompt minibuffers pop up even though
> expect is doing the password handling.
>
> Looking at the source code and seeing how the hooks are installed I don't
> see any way to turn password prompting off. Am I missing anything? If not
> I'd like to propose adding a few millisecond delay that checks to see if
> execution has continued past the password prompt. If so someone/something
> has entered the password "behind Emacs' back" and there's no need to prompt.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Noah
>