[acdc_rulz]

Tried this again with SDK 1.6 - same result. Here is the output from my second attempt at doing this (really seems like whatever exploit asroot2
took advantage of was stopped in this firmware release for the HTC Eris). When trying to run this script via the shell, all that happens is that it is killed - not good).

Output:
C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb push asroot2 /data/local/
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
665 KB/s (74512 bytes in 0.109s)

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb shell
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
[1] Killed /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
$ mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
$