changing settings in settings.php in function.php

Hi
Thanks for the plugin. I use it on several sites.

I’ve altered the settings.php file. With future updates, that is of course not very clever.
I tried to add a filter in my functions.php.

add_filter('cbnet_rscc_get_option_defaults', 'override_cbnet_rscc_get_option_defaults');
function override_cbnet_rscc_get_option_defaults ($defaults){
	$defaults = array(
		'chars' => 'ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789',
		'char_length' => '3',
		'img_size_x' => '90',
		'img_size_y' => '24',
		'fg_r' => '0',
		'fg_g' => '0',
		'fg_b' => '0',
		'bg_r' => '255',
		'bg_g' => '255',
		'bg_b' => '255',
		'font_size' => '18',
		'font_char_width' => '15',
		'img_type' => 'png',
		'base' => array( '6', '18'),
		'comment_form_label' => __( '' , 'cbnet_rscc' )
	);
	return $defaults;
}

But that did not work.
Could you give me a hint how to alter the settings via functions.php?

Thank you very much for your time.

regards
theo

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