I am a newbie, can someone help me?
I never used Unix before and I had just created this shell account. I just
what's the different between a shell acct and a superuser acct? I know there's
a lot of intelligent people in here so please help me.....

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shell accounts merly give acess. superuser accS (root) controls the shells
and other things.

a shell acount lets you log in to a system. once your logged in your either
a normal user or a superuser (not really but no need for detail) superuser
kicks ass, and normal accounts can like... tpye and stuff.[D

In short, root (the superuser) has full access and privilege to all
principles and capabilities of the system. A regular user is one
principle amongst many, and only has access and privilege as delegated.

A shell is a mechanism by which a user interacts with the system. 

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