I already wrote how to configure the ssh-client for single-sign-on in Convenient SSH on Linux. Today I would like to jump up to the KDE-Layer and see what there can be done to organize networking more effectively. Formerly I used kssh to organize my ssh-accounts (see Installing kssh on ubuntu). Nowadays I prefer a combination of KDE’s Network Folders and Terminal Sessions.

KDE Network Folders can help you to organize your remote access links. It is based on KDE’s support of webdav, ftp, sftp, smb and fish. Fish is quite interesting, it presents files over ssh just as they would be local. There is a special directory where your network folders are stored – type "remote:/" into Konqueror’s address bar. (Other possibility is of course to use simple bookmarks to organize remote connections accessed via “sftp://user@host/” or similiar.) It is just a collection of links which are stored in .kde/share/apps/remoteview by KDE.
The real value of Network Folders lies in the combination with Network Folder Wizard which gives you a configuration interface and quick access list in KDE’s panel.
Read the documentation of knetattach in Konqueror "help:/knetattach/introduction.html" which is the application behind Network Folders administration, also known as Network Folder Wizard also available as an applet by "RightClick Panel" ->  "Add Applet to Panel" -> "Network Folders".

Teminal Sessions is an other applet you can add to your panel. It will list the different konsole sessions. I use sessions to configure ssh shell access and to execute common shell commands like watching remote logs etc. . To add a session open a konsole window, in the menubar click "Settings" -> "Configure Konsole" -> "Session"-tab . In the “General” group type a name for your session, the command to execute (example: ssh xxx.gebewau.de) and your working directory, click save session. You can associate different color schema and icons with different sessions to have better orientation between konsole windows for different purposes. There seems to be no grouping feature for session links.