Changing name of "Home" in Finder under Places

Some way I have changed "Home" to another name in Finder and now I want to change it back to "Home" but I do not remember how (or why) I had changed it originally.
I would appreciate your help.
Thanks.

RetiredVRS wrote:
Thanks for the information. I was not aware that my login name was correct in appearing there.
The purpose of changing it to "Home" is to be able to distinguish it more readily as my home directory of my MBP when I have my iMac and MBP connected.
Any other information and/or suggestion(s) are welcome.
Thanks again.
You know it's home because of the small home or house icon next to it.
It's generically referred to as Home in the Finder Sidebar preferences. Maybe that's what you are recalling.
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NibblesNBits wrote:
When I set up my machine, I set up the name of my home folder without knowing some of the ramifications of using it. I reviewed the steps in http://www.macworld.com/article/132693/2008/03/changeshortusername.html which seemed reasonably straight forward.
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I received the following error after I entered the password:
"limited is not in the sudoers file."
The only thing I could think of was that the account I created, "limited", was not set up with admin rights - so I went in and selected the "Allow user to administer this computer" checkbox for this account. However, a warning saying the change won't take affect until I logout and back in. I'm reluctant to do this, in case something happens where the Mac requires shutting down before all steps have been completed.
nothing will happen. just log out/in and rerun the command. an account has to be admin to use sudo.
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