Equal rights for everyone, anyone can use any account.
Later on, and still today as default in GNU software, he also objected to the 'wheel' group that would restrict the ability to call 'su' to just the members of 'wheel'. He wanted everyone who somehow obtained the root password to be able to become root.
In OpenBSD at least, if there are users in the wheel group then this is enforced. If there are no users in the wheel group then anyone who knows the password can become root.
Later on, and still today as default in GNU software, he also objected to the 'wheel' group that would restrict the ability to call 'su' to just the members of 'wheel'. He wanted everyone who somehow obtained the root password to be able to become root.