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Commands like sftp work in a way that it’s not possible to pipe in user input (ex:password etc…)
Q1: How does sftp achieve this?
Q2: How do programs like expect get around this restriction?
sftp reads input from the controlling terminal rather than just from the standard input. Expect and similar get around it by creating a pseudo-terminal under their control and making that the controlling terminal of the process they are talking to.