by Jake Garrison.
Ok.... so this is super weird. Just for the heck of it I tried the same steps using chrome instead of safari.
It worked.... Now my database has plenty of information populated in the config_plugins table related to auth/ldap. So, there seems to be a bug where this config page can not be modified with safari. I've moved back to safari to see if I can edit the information, and none of those changes are making it to the database. I have not had this problem anywhere else in the program.
Should I report this bug?