chainssh is a shell script to smplify the ssh login via multiple sshgateways/firewallgateaways. e.g. connect from homehost via sshgateway to a clusternode with one command.
This project aims to provide an easy to use interface to Samba, openLDAP, and Printing (via cups, iptables, emerge and apt-get. It currently is command-line based, and has the beginnings of a graphical interface via kommander (see quanta).