User in use

From: Patrick <patrick.moresi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 May 2007 00:49:21 -0700

In solaris 10,could you tell me how know the user that i am?
if i'm user "patrick" and i do "su - ", when i write "echo $USER" the
response is not "root" but "patrick". the same for "who am i".
Thanks

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