postgres: Password authentification failed for user... when using tora

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  when trying to login using psql the following works:

  psql -h localhost -d pokus -U erik -W

  however the tora (unstable package tora) gives me the following error 
(possible typos, it's retyped because I can't copy&paste from the dialog 
window where the message is displayed):

Unable to connect to the database
Fatal 1: Password authentification failed for user "erik"

  the only three uncommented lines in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf:

local        all                                           md5
host         all         127.0.0.1     255.0.0.0           md5
host         all         0.0.0.0       0.0.0.0             reject

  why would tora give such an error? (btw I tried to type everything 
few times to make sure there's no typo/capslock on etc.)

  this is on debian unstable, postgres 7.2.2-2, tora 1.3.7-4.

  any ideas?

  TIA!

	erik