diff --git a/tabby-ssh/src/components/sshTab.component.ts b/tabby-ssh/src/components/sshTab.component.ts
index 66acde1d..8bc0eaba 100644
--- a/tabby-ssh/src/components/sshTab.component.ts
+++ b/tabby-ssh/src/components/sshTab.component.ts
@@ -200,13 +200,12 @@ export class SSHTabComponent extends BaseTerminalTabComponent {
         }
 
         const session = new SSHShellSession(this.injector, this.sshSession)
-
+        this.setSession(session)
         this.attachSessionHandler(session.serviceMessage$, msg => {
             this.write(`\r${colors.black.bgWhite(' SSH ')} ${msg}\r\n`)
             session.resize(this.size.columns, this.size.rows)
         })
 
-        this.setSession(session)
         await session.start()
         this.session?.resize(this.size.columns, this.size.rows)
     }
diff --git a/tabby-ssh/src/session/shell.ts b/tabby-ssh/src/session/shell.ts
index 36691751..2f4c9cfd 100644
--- a/tabby-ssh/src/session/shell.ts
+++ b/tabby-ssh/src/session/shell.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export class SSHShellSession extends BaseSession {
         this.ssh = ssh
         this.profile = ssh.profile
         this.setLoginScriptsOptions(this.profile.options)
+        this.ssh.serviceMessage$.subscribe(m => this.serviceMessage.next(m))
     }
 
     async start (): Promise<void> {