After 3.0 upgrade, can't login (SOLVED - See Last post)

[elhayf]

actually I did a fresh installation and was redirected to the login page but no password was sent to me.
I manually changed the password in the data/users/user.xml file to a new sha1 password.
then when I tried to login it seems to accept the password but redirects me back to the login page.
If I put in a wrong password then it wouldn't redirect and will put up a message that the password or username were wrong.