How to change the name of an existing user?

i found this command on this other website but i have been hesitant to try it because im araid it might screw everything up
usermod -l login-name old-name
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-chan … r-name-id/
now my understanding is that i would also need to manually rename the home directory, but my question is what else will i need to do
so far all i can think of that i might need to change is home directory and sudoers file
i have searched abit on google for info about changing a users name but there seems to be a slight lack of documentation available on this subject
before i dive into this and possibly screw something up, does anybody here have any experience with changing users names?
if so what other problems might i run into?
do i need to change my uid also or can i keep the existing one?

problem # 1
the user that i am changing is currently named arch and i want to name it to awesome (i am making seperate users for different WM's)
so i loged in as tj because
usermod will not allow you to change the name of a user who is logged
in. You must make certain that the named user is not executing any
processes when this command is being executed if the user's numerical
user ID is being changed. You must change the owner of any crontab
files manually. You must change the owner of any at jobs manually. You
must make any changes involving NIS on the NIS server.
i did
su -
(to become root)
i ran the command and changed the users name
usermod -l awesome arch
i then became awesome to test that it worked
su awesome
it worked so i exited back to tj
exit
i became root again
su -
i renamed /home/arch to /home/awesome
cd /home
mv arch awesome
it all seemed to work
i became awesome again
su awesome
i noticed that i get
bash-3.2$
instead of
[awesome@myhost ~]$
if i do cd ~ it says
bash: cd: /home/arch: No such file or directory
so basically my question now is..
what file do i need to edit to change the location of the home directory that the user is using?

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