I'm trying to set up Postgres for the first time, and I need to create a user with permissions to read and create databases. However, when I use:

createuser username

in my terminal I get the following message:

createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: role "tom" does not exist

Tom is my Ubuntu user account that I'm logged into right now. I'm trying to create a username of "postgres" then do a psql -U psql template1 so I can create a database and assign an owner to it for my Rails app.

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