How to set up a cron for password protected scripts?

I have some cron jobs that are working like:

php /path/to/file/file.php

Works fine when I don't have htaccess password protection on, but what do I need to add to make it run when I set up passwords? I can't find this answer anywhere. Thanks!

 

move the file somewhere it's not available to public ?

 

Yeah what I mean is how do you write a cron to run a password protected page?

php /path/to/file/file.php doesn't work if it is in a password protected directory