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by pja 3123 days ago
It’s not a URI. The google-authenticator pam library generates an image that encodes the secret which gets echoed to the terminal as a QR-code. No internet access required - just a camera on your phone to image the code.

If you can take a photo of the code & re-use it, then you can initialise multiple phones with the same secret.