Can not access folders in a usb hdd: Permission denied

[ionophore]

Hi. I'm having trouble accessing an external usb hard disk. After plugging it in:

$ mount
[extraneous output removed]
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

$cd /media/disk
$ ls -l
total 28
drw-rw-rw- 273 ben ben  8192 2009-06-14 17:46 stuff
drw--w--w-   2 ben ben 16384 2009-06-14 17:21 lost+found
ben_AT_electron:/media/disk$ cd stuff/
bash: cd: stuff/: Permission denied

The account I am currently logged in on is "ben," as can be seen, i am the owner of this folder. Any idea?

Thanks,
-Ben

[Dapper Dan]

See if you can get in there with root privilages:

su

Enter root's password, then:

cd stuff/

EDIT: I'm assuming you're using straight Debian.

[ionophore]

Yeah, works pefectly as root. "ben" is the owner of all the files in the directory and has read-write access to everything. Your assumption that i am using straight debian is correct.

[Dapper Dan]

Might have to do with the fact that /media itself needs root permission. It's been a while since using straight Debian so I'm guessing. At any rate, if root works, I'd just use it. My hunch is it has to do with how permissions are set up for /media/disk in /etc/fstab.

[devils casper]

To access Linux filesystems, one has to give ownership of /media/disk folder to Regular user.

su -
chown -R user_id:group_id  /media/disk

Execute id command as Regular user to check user and group ids.