The filter microsoft.ad.as_datetime fails when a user has "Account never expires" set.

[FaxMac]

SUMMARY

The filter microsoft.ad.as_datetime returns an overflow value error when the value of accountexpires is 9223372036854775807. This value represents when an AD user has set "Never expires" on their account

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

ANSIBLE VERSION

Not relevant

COLLECTION VERSION

microsoft.ad collection

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

RHEL 9.4

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

pass the variable 9223372036854775807 to microsoft.ad.as_datetime filter.

EXPECTED RESULTS

An Overflow error. Making the rest of the playbook not run.

ACTUAL RESULTS

[jborean93]

The behaviour makes sense as the maximum year a Python datetime can be is 9999. I guess the question is what should happen here. Should it

• Error with a better error message
• Handle this specific use case (0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF representing 0 or max)
  • If so should it be 0 or the max datetime
• Make all values that exceed the max do the above

My guess is we should at least handle 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF specifically as attributes like this can be set to that value but I'm not sure if it should treat the value as 0 (1601-01-01) or the maximum Python datetime value. I'm also not sure if any real value beyond that date would ever appear normally but we should probably figure out what to do with it anyway.