With Jessie, Debian has decided to switch to a new default init system called systemd. And this new system doesn't use /etc/inittab. So you have two options to solve your problem:
You can either switch back to the old one (called sysvinit):
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# apt-get install sysvinit-core
This command should also remove systemd-sysv, which makes systemd your init system. After that, there should be a /etc/inittab which you can modify like on older versions of Debian. And after a reboot, sysvinit will be your init system.
Or you can configure systemd to do the automatic login. For that create the file
/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf (you probably have to create the directory
/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d first) with content
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[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin "user account" %I
and then reboot your system.