"Cisco WebEx Meeing Center" would like to receive keystrokes from any application

[atomczynski]

"Cisco WebEx Meeting Center" would like to receive keystrokes from any application.

Grant access to this application in Security & Privacy preferences, located in System Preferences.
<Open System Preferences> <Deny>

What exactly does this mean? I need the app to function.

[Jmazzuca182]

Bump.

[Dylan_YYC]

Wow, yeah no kidding. What does this mean?

[RJH]

Anyone come up with a solution to this for Catalina ? Presumably it will require a PPPC profile created and deployed, but which option in the PPPC utility applies to input monitoring - as it doesnt appear obvious ? Is this perhaps only an option a user can enable and if thats the case, this is a bit of a "gotcha" - enabling it seems to require admin access, which majority of our users do not have. Anyone been able to implement a profile to cover this ? thanks

[RJH]

ok - looks like this is a duplicate of another post in JAMFNation here - which answers my question - no way to push it via a profile, as its a user setting only, and theres also no way to set it as a non-admin - have to be admin. Great thanks again Apple.

[bradtchapman]

@RJH : considering updating your webex instance. Newer versions don't ask for this entitlement.

[RJH]

thanks @bradtchapman - I'm actually seeing the issue with Cisco Jabber, rather than web-ex, exhibiting the same behaviour as per the other JAMF article. Seems there is no way around it, other than users CAN select DENY. Really not sure about the impact to the functionality of the app - why it needs to monitor keyboard input from other apps at all is unclear, and not much on CISCO's support sites explaining this.

[bradtchapman]

@RJH are you seeing this with Jabber 12.8.x ?

The request is for global hotkeys - to be able to invoke Jabber shortcuts from any app.