diff --git a/api/api.py b/api/api.py
index 0cbd771..997e0f9 100644
--- a/api/api.py
+++ b/api/api.py
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 )
 from werkzeug.security import check_password_hash
 import os, dotenv
+from easyad import EasyAD
+from ldap.filter import escape_filter_chars
+from ldap import INVALID_CREDENTIALS as LDAP_INVALID_CREDENTIALS
 import ECNQueue
 
 # Load envrionment variables for ./.env
@@ -47,6 +50,58 @@
 
 
 
+def user_is_valid(username: str, password: str) -> bool:
+    """Checks if user is valid and in webqueue2 login group.
+
+    Args:
+        username (str): Career account username.
+        password (str): Career account passphrase.
+
+    Returns:
+        bool: True if user is valid, otherwise False.
+    """
+
+    # Check for empty arguments
+    if (username == "" or password == ""):
+        return False
+
+    # Initialize EasyAD
+    config = {
+        "AD_SERVER": "boilerad.purdue.edu",
+        "AD_DOMAIN": "boilerad.purdue.edu"
+    }
+    ad = EasyAD(config)
+
+    # Prepare search critiera for Active Directory
+    credentials = {
+        "username": escape_filter_chars(username),
+        "password": password
+    }
+    attributes = [ 'cn', "memberOf" ]
+    filter_string = f'(&(objectClass=user)(|(sAMAccountName={username})))'
+
+    # Do user search
+    try:
+        user = ad.search(credentials=credentials, attributes=attributes, filter_string=filter_string)[0]
+    # pylint says this is an error but it works so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+    except LDAP_INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
+        return False
+    
+    # Isolate group names
+        # Example:
+        #	'CN=00000227-ECNStuds,OU=BoilerADGroups,DC=BoilerAD,DC=Purdue,DC=edu' becomes
+        # 	`00000227-ECNStuds`
+    user_groups = [ group.split(',')[0].split('=')[1] for group in user["memberOf"] ]
+
+    # Check group membership
+    webqueue_login_group = "00000227-ECN-webqueue"
+    if webqueue_login_group not in user_groups:
+        return False
+
+    return True
+
+
+
 class Login(Resource):
     def post(self) -> tuple:
         """Validates username/password and returns both access and refresh tokens.
@@ -76,10 +131,8 @@ def post(self) -> tuple:
             if field not in data.keys():
                 return ({ "message": f"{field} missing from request body"}, 422)
         
-        if data["username"] != os.environ.get("SHARED_USERNAME"):
-            return ({ "message": "Username invalid"}, 401)
-        if not check_password_hash(os.environ.get("SHARED_PASSWORD_HASH"), data["password"]):
-            return ({ "message": "Password invalid"}, 401)
+        if not user_is_valid(data["username"], data["password"]):
+            return ({ "message": "Username or password is invalid"}, 401)
 
         access_token = create_access_token(data["username"])
         refresh_token = create_refresh_token(data["username"])