We present an approach to the problem of detecting intrusions in computer systems through the use behavioral data produced
by users during their normal login sessions. In fact, attacks may be detected by observing abnormal behavior, and the technique
we use consists in associating to each system user a classifier made with relational decision trees that will label login
sessions as “legals” or as “intrusions”. We perform an experimentation for 10 users, based on their normal work, gathered
during a period of three months.We obtain a correct user recognition of 90%, using an independent test set. The test set consists
of new, previously unseen sessions for the users considered during training, as well as sessions from users not available during the training phase. The obtained performance is comparable with previous studies, but (1) we do not use information that may effect user privacy
and (2) we do not bother the users with questions.