I am confirming this as a bug in eclipse. It may be due to the GCJ JRE, but eclipse should detect this and not show the extssh option. Better yet, it should warn you that by using the GCJ JRE you will be losing functionality and provide you a link to a page that explains how to install Sun's JDK.
Also, Sun's JDK is not in dapper main IE, you have to turn on the commercial repository. So this makes this a real bug in eclipse. searching for compatible vm... testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: DESede/CBC/NoPadding: DESede updatekeys: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: HmacMD5 Unhandled event loop exception Reason: java.lang.NullPointerException ** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Can't connect to cvs repository using extssh https://launchpad.net/bugs/40013 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs