user invisibility (Cloaking)

[maurice at nmtvax.UUCP]

>I must be missing something, but, WHY would anyone want to "cloak" themselves
>for any legitimate purpose?  Eliminating one's entries in the process table
>would have a detrimental impact on the system in general, and on that user's
>continued execution in particular.

Cloaking would allow one to be able to work on the system without anyone
actually noticing that they are there, or to be on the system as an
*unseen* observer. Oh, yes, it's not removing process entries from the
process table, but rather not reporting that they are there.

   Roger Levasseur
   New Mexico Tech