Thanks for the pointers on the Debug.
I worked on the ldap.inc.php as well as config.php.
I think i found the issue but now since my modification, the debug spits me back to the non debug login screen.  ODD.
Would someone have a suggestion as to how to stay in Debug and where to go from now?
Thanks
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Here are my modifications to the ldap.inc.php
function ldap_search_user($ldap_group, $userdn, $depth = -1)
{
  global $ds, $config;
#  $compare = ldap_compare($ds, $ldap_group, $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'], $userdn); 
 $binduser = ldap_internal_dn_from_username($userdn);
  $compare = ldap_compare($ds, $ldap_group, $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'], $binduser);  if ($compare === TRUE)
  {
    return TRUE; // Member found, return TRUE
  }
  elseif (($config['auth_ldap_recursive'] === true) && ($depth < $config['auth_ldap_recursive_maxdepth']))
  {
    $depth++;
    //$filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(memberOf=". $ldap_group ."))";
    $filter_params                = array();
#    $filter_params[] = ldap_filter_create('objectClass', 'group');
#///////    
$filter_params[] = ldap_filter_create('objectClass', $config['auth_ldap_groupobjectclass']); #Change to posix group for OpenLdap#///////