If you have yr umask correctly set, the chmod issue isn't an issue. I use tcsh with backslash_quote on, and here's the alias that's served me quite well:

% alias skeyto
cat $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh !* 'perl -e \'mkdir("$ENV{HOME}/.ssh");open(A,">>$ENV{HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys");print(A <>)\' '

Of course, you need Perl in yr path, but who doesn't have that nowadays?

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% kill -H -1

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Here's the line in my rc file, with all the nasty backslashes and quotes:

alias skeyto 'cat $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh \!* \'perl -e \\\'mkdir("$ENV{HOME}/.ssh");open(A,">>$
ENV{HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys");print(A <>)\\\' \''

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% kill -H -1

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