postgresql -U postgres login porblems

[Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com>]

What am I doing wrong here?
I am not able to do anything with my postgresql database?

in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf

local      all    postgres                                         md5
host       all    postgres       127.0.0.1     255.255.255.255     md5


I login to a console as postgres and try 

postgres:~$ createuser -U postgres -a username
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Password:
createuser: could not connect to database template1: FATAL:  Password authentication failed for user "postgres"
postgres:~$

Lance


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