How to run gpg from a script run by cron?

Question

I have a script that has a part that looks like that:

for file in `ls *.tar.gz`; do
  echo encrypting $file
  gpg --passphrase-file /home/$USER/.gnupg/backup-pas         


        

Answer 1

make sure the user that is running the cron job has the permissions needed to encrypt the file.