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I wrote a contract A that uses msg.sender for authentication: When A creates an item it stores msg.sender in itemsOwners mapping (itemOwners[itemId] = msg.sender;). Later A compares msg.sender to itemOwners[itemId] to check access rights.

Now I have the trouble that I cannot use my contract B to wrap calls to A, because A wrongly assumes that the item owner is the contract B, when B calls A. So it stores a wrong item owner that should be a user, not contract B.

Should I replace msg.sender by tx.origin in A? Or what to do? It was not recommended to use tx.origin. So?

I ask not what is the difference between msg.sender and tx.origin, but what to do?

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  • @goodvibration No.
    – porton
    Jul 15, 2020 at 17:26
  • Does this answer your question? How do I make my DAPP “Serenity-Proof?”? Jul 15, 2020 at 17:36
  • @goodvibration No.
    – porton
    Jul 15, 2020 at 17:44
  • @porton What's the relationship between A and B? Do they work together? If A and B trust each other a typical solution is to pass the user as an address parameter, and A has the requirement that only B can call such method.
    – Ismael
    Jul 16, 2020 at 12:57
  • @porton Also the title is a bit misleading, you do not want to know the difference but how to authenticate a user between contracts calls or something like that.
    – Ismael
    Jul 16, 2020 at 12:58

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