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ignacionelson 1e30e83f11 Stop projectsend:captcha-off claiming a success it did not have
The command writes Setting::CaptchaProvider = 'none'. On an installation
using the platform's managed keys, Captcha::resolve() returns
managedConfig() — read from config — before it ever looks at that setting,
so the write lands somewhere nothing reads and every form stays protected.

The command then printed "CAPTCHA is off". That is false in the worst
direction: the person running this is locked out and debugging, and the
message sends them away from the one thing that would have explained why
they are still being challenged.

It now says it changed nothing, and names PROJECTSEND_CAPTCHA_DISABLED,
which is checked ahead of the key source and is therefore the only one of
the two escape hatches that works on a managed installation. The docblock
said those two were equivalent; they never were.

Deliberately not gated behind captcha.configure. Gating it would take a
self-hosted operator's way back in — the alternative being a hand-edited
database row — to close something that on a managed installation does
nothing anyway. Reaching it needs a shell in the container, which needs an
RCE, at which point the CAPTCHA is not the problem.

The command had no test at all. It has three now, including one that pins
the ordering inside resolve(): if the environment check ever moves below
the key source, a locked-out operator loses their last way in.
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