Question help remove id from profile links

Link to Kunena forum member profile looks like
localhost/forum/profile/513-admin
I know that the numeric id's, like this 513, are generated in Joomla from a random number, for the security reasons.
Here however everybody sees the full path to admin login: 513-admin
Is it possible to remove id's from such links?
So that they would be like
localhost/forum/profile/admin
?
(I know I can show "real name" instead of username, but the number is still there).

Thank you.

I would like to be sure I correctly understand your question.

Your question could mean either:

a) "I want to remove the number from the URL"; or

b) "I want to remove the link on my forum that refers to the administrator user's account".

If, as I suspect, the question is like in (a) above, the answer is difficult to achieve without defining a redirect rule to change from "/forum/profile/513-admin" to "/forum/profile/admin". You can probably do this with a .htaccess rule definition.

Is that really what your question is about? If so, this is not specifically a Kunena question but rather a general website administration issue.

Yes, I'd like to remove numbers from profile links.
I suggest Kunena should have such option.
Thanks for the answer, sozzled.

alancast wrote: I suggest Kunena should have such option.

Tough one to answer. The inclusion of a "numeric id" in the URL is to make the URL addresses unique. If we remove the [number] identifier then the URLs are non-unique and then links on your website could (essentially) go "anywhere".

I don't know how this could be achieved and, at the same time, keep things working the way that they do work now. Perhaps another member of this community might have a solution they would like to share with you.

Not at all!
The uniqueness of usernames is easy to control. I think maybe it is already controlled. I don't know, by some username verification procedure?
That's logical. Otherwise there could be different users with the same name.

I know that in JomSocial there was an option to customise the URL for each member, not sure if its something that is tied in with that or if it alters Joomla/Kunena user IDs or not.