Differentiating user activity from system activity

[Matthew Booth]

In the broadest possible sense, including definitions of 'user activity'
and 'system activity', what schemes have people considered for the
above?

On other unixes, audit events have an associated 'terminal'. On the face
of it, this seems like a reasonable differentiator. I.e. a 'user'
process has a terminal, a 'system' process does not. Is this any good?

On Linux we don't record a terminal. How about a non-default auid? What
about system daemons restarted by an administrator? How about SELinux?

Your thoughts appreciated,

Matt
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