Can’t Login After Excluding Users Table

Hi, i cannot login to the live site. after pushing the staging site to it., excluding content of table “users”. 

Then i did “copy to live site” from the staging site, but this time included table “users”. 

But i still cannot login to the live site. 

Password recovery doesn’t work either. The username/email isn’t recognized by the live site anymore. 

Is this a bug?